Armor

One common piece of RPG equipment is armor, which protects characters from wounds. Various kinds of armor are described in this chapter, but they all fall into one of three armor categories: light, medium, or heavy.

Light armor eases your block rolls and hinders your dodge rolls.

Medium armor eases your block rolls by two steps and hinders your dodge rolls by two steps.

Heavy armor eases your block rolls by three steps and hinders your dodge rolls by three steps.

If you cannot freely use the armor you are wearing, its dodge penalty also applies to all of your Speed tasks (not just to Speed defense rolls to dodge). For example, if you are wearing heavy armor but can't freely use it, all of your Speed tasks are hindered by three steps.